Development of Hybrid Friction Material for Brake Pad Application

Abstract

As per the report of world health organization and environmental protection agencies, the existing brake pad materials produce toxic gases. Toxicity leads to create a bad effect on human health. So, there is a need to reduce the percentage of toxic elements at source and develop novel material compositions. It is known that the natural fiber-reinforced material reduces the toxicity. In this direction, an attempt made to fabricate hybrid natural fiber-reinforced composite material. The hand layup method was used to fabricate the hybrid fiber-reinforced composites. The mechanical test namely tensile, flexural, impact, shear, and interlaminar were performed to characterize the composites. The results revealed that hybrid fiber-reinforced composite materials exhibit superior mechanical properties compared to non-hybrid composites. Scanning Electron Microscope was used to analyze the fracture surface of the tested samples.